[SRP] Black Sun

[Harri-chan]

The Hyperion wasn't the only ship orbiting the planet. A large mining ship named the viking would probably show up on their scanners, although it was all legit should they go through the process of checking it out, registered to a large mining corporation back on Earth. What they might not realise however, was just how easy it was to bribe your way onto one of those things.

Down in the hanger, a somewhat small and beat-up dropship was being fueled. It was just about big enough to carry five, including the pilot, and a small amount of weapons and equipment. Several people in the uniform of the mining ship were stood around it to supervise the fueling process, while infront of it stood a woman in battered black and grey armour, holding her helmet in her hand, leaving her pretty face exposed and long brown curls of hair free to tumble to her waist.

"You're sure she's on there? Those aren't the kind of people you want to mess with for no reason", said a guy next to her in ship's uniform. The young woman smirked, "My source is never wrong", she murmured. "You just worry about letting me know when they drop, got it?".

[Knight Errant]

Soon, after much shouting from Bright, and cool replies from the twin pilots, the dropship is ready to go!

The Lieutenant appears, walking over to the marines. "I expected better from you... The mission hasnt even begun and all ready someone is in the infirmary. Also some of you seem to have quite the disregard for regulation. While meaningless up here, if you disobey orders planetside it can cause people to die."

"Do you all understand me? Because if I dont think you are capable, I will turn this ship around." He cooly regards each of them, before continuing.

"If you are prepared to act like marines, and not teenagers, get your final prep squared away and get on the drop ship."

[Brnin8r]

Bendak hoped the lieutenant wasn't talking about him TOO much. A quick salute and he was on his way to finally suit up. In about five minutes he was set up, armor and all and only moments after he was sat down in the dropship, stoic and ready for the drop.

[Haylie]

Paladin pretended to pay attention to Bright as he yelled, but she was going through all of her strategies and training in her head to make sure she remembered it all. She had twenty men under her command at one point. She didn't need anybody screaming at her through a comlink.

She walked back through the corridor to her locker to get the rest of her armor on. It was all gleaming white with several gold strips going down the front, shoulders, and arms. It really complimented her body, though it was armor, so she didn't look quite as cute. She also slipped what looked like a large headset with a targeting reticule over one eye, but it was really a targeting assistant, which helped with her already incredible aim in combat. It kept her face and most of her head exposed, but left her vision unobstructed. She'd be able to see and assess everything in a heartbeat.

She walked back down the corridor to the shuttle, looking a bit more confident with a pistol on her belt and rifle on her back. She climbed aboard the shuttle and picked a seat near the door, getting comfortable while she could.

[Harri-chan]

The woman pulled her hair into a ponytail with a simple tie, and then folded it up against the back of her head and across the top before pulling the helmet on over the top of it, giving it a bit of a whack to get it on. Just like the dropship and body armour, it looked as if her weapons had passed through the hands of several not-so-careful owners before she'd come into possession of them. A rifle, a pistol and a few grenades of some description were loaded into the small ship before she began to climb the ladder and hopped into the pilot's seat. Two crew came to pull the ladder away before the top of the cockpit lowered over her, and hatch in the back of the ship rose up with a low hiss, sealing tightly.

[Evra]

chris stands up turning his hud on and walking over to the dropship getting on having completly ignored bright he gets on sitting down in one of the seats

[Knight Errant]

Hawkins and Bright get onto the dropship after getting suited up. Bright in heavy armor and weapons, the Lieutenant in light armor and technical gear. The twins bring the dropship to life as the pre-flight checklist begins counting down.

Inside the dropship, lines of seats are on each side. They have straps to secure them for the drop, as well as above head storage space for their weapons.

[Zoey]

Stryker was ready to leave. He was more worried about entry into the planet than the mission itself. For all he knew, it was just some faulty wiring the reason why communications were lost. Whatever the reason he was geared up and ready to go into battle if need be. He took a seat, but kept his weapons and extra gear ready at hand. He was never that trusting to someone to keep safe the gear that was intended to keep him safe. "The faster we get this done, the faster I can get back home and catch up with my TV shows" he commented as he strapped himself into the seat.

[Knight Errant]

((*will assume everyone gets prepped and latched in*))

Blade looks over his shoulder. "You lot ready? Well you had better be..."

A crane lifts the dropship up as the pressure seals seal, the inner airlock opening for the dropship to be set down in. It is unlatched, the crane being removed as the inner airlock seals.

Blade (as Razor counts down in the backround): "We are on an express elevator to hell... goin down."

Razor: "Two... one... mark!"

The outer airlock opens with a rush of air, sending the dropship plummeting planetside! They all feel like they left their stomachs on the Hyperion...

[Haylie]

Paladin makes sure she's holding onto something stable when they launch out of the hangar, but otherwise doesn't seem too bothered by the jerking. She's done this before, after all.

She double-checks her equipment to make sure none of it fell out of place or broke somehow, then goes back to her focused sitting.

[Harri-chan]

The crew member she'd been discussing her mission with put a hand to his ear as his headset started to crackle, and then looked up into the dropship's cockpit, and gave Claudia the thumbs up. She nodded in return, and fired up the engine, which roared to life. The screw scattered through heavy airlock doors as the floor below the dropship lowered into a ramp, and with a jet of flames, Claudia's little ship flew out through the door.

Her fingers flew across the controls, the scanners picking up the ship that was moving away from the Hyperion at a rapid pace, and then pushed a button to lock onto it, plummeting down towards the planet in pursuit of them.

[Evra]

chris sits there not moving except to look around the rest of the dropship looking at the others in the ship before looking down at the floor

[Knight Errant]

The ride is rough, but nothing they havent dealt with before. A few minutes in they get a radio from Razor: "Alright... Hadley's Hope is about ten minutes from here. Still no signals raised on the short wave comminicator. Get unbuckled and ready for drop."

[Harri-chan]

Claudia fought the controls of the ship all the way down, her stash of weapons rattling around in the back as the ship twisted and turned in pursuit of the Hyperion crew, but she managed to bring it down in one piece, landing gear lowering from beneath the ship, which groaned upon touching down. Unbuckling from her seat, she walked through the back of the ship, grabbing her weapons, and then hit a switch to lower the ramp at the back. She approached a large cloth, and pulled it aside, revealing what appeared to be some sort of motorcycle with two huge wheels, and she rolled it down the ramp, onto the surface of the planet.

Looking down, she brushed a button on the inside arm of her suit, and the ramp closed behind her, sealing off her ship, a hand knocking the side of her helmet to get the display to clear before she swung a leg over the bike, which sat quite low to the ground, and the engine roared to life, and she began to race off in the direction the Hyperion dropship had been heading.

[Haylie]

Paladin unbuckles herself and equips her battle rifle, checking the clip and sights one last time to make sure they were in good working condition, then doing the same to her heavy pistol. She then used a small computer on her wrist--like a built-in wristwatch--to make sure her suit's integrity was good and her eye-HUD was calibrated properly.

Feeling satisfied, she sat on the edge of her seat and prepared to jump out as soon as the doors opened.